>>Hi George,
>>Another (very simple) approach is to pass a parameter (anything) to your Exe. In the NT4 Services dialogue there is a text box at the bottom of the window parameters. No parameter = visible.
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>Hmmm, I've never noticed this. I'll have to take a look at it. But, this will only work when starting up the service, correct? What I am working towards is later on if the service is running and I make it visible, I can view statistics that I have gathered about what the service has been doing/not doing. I'll take a look into this though, thanks!

As another idea - move the form from visible area by setting top and left proprty to -1000 for example. This idea works great in our applications...